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HERDMAN, Robert Bruce
(Service number 3/638)

Private R B Herdman — From" "South Canterbury Roll of Honour", published 1916 by the South Canterbury Caledonian Society. (South Canterbury Museum 17/15)

Chalmers Church memorial plaque, photographed in 2010 — South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.28 (South Canterbury Museum )

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	19 January 1893	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Timaru, New Zealand
Occupation	Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	P.D. Herdman (father), Builder, Timaru, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	No. 1 Stationary Hospital
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Medical Corps
Date	21 May 1915
Transport	Marama
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Sydney, Australia on the Marama, then transfered to the Moldavia for Suez

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Medical Corps

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	23 October 1915	Age
Place of Death	Lost at sea, HT Marquette, Aegean Sea
Cause	Drowned
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Mikra Memorial, Greece
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial; Chalmers Church Memorial Plaque

Biographical Notes

Robert Herdman was the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Herdman, of Timaru. One of twenty nine crew and 182 troops lost on the torpedoed Marquette 23 October 1915.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [24 Nov 2013]; Military Record held at Archives New Zealand, Wellington Office Item ID R16794670

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Researched and Written by

John Sutherland, SC branch NZSG

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